Scrum Master

Siemens Digital Industries is an innovation leader in automation and digitalization. Closely, collaborating with partners and customers, we care about the digital transformation in the process and discrete industries. With our Digital Enterprise portfolio, we provide and encourage companies of all sizes with an end-to-end set of products, solutions and services to integrate and digitalize the entire value chain. Meaningful optimization for the specific needs of each industry, our outstanding portfolio supports customers to achieve greater efficiency and flexibility. We are constantly adding innovations to its portfolio to integrate groundbreaking future technologies.

We're seeking a dynamic and top-tier Scrum Master to join our technology and innovation team. This individual will have a pivotal role in implementing agile ceremonies in support of teams designing and creating new technologies by working closely with data scientists, developers, and domain experts.

Position Overview

As a Scrum Master in Experience and Platform Engineering organization, the role plays a pivotal role in fostering an Agile attitude within the team and the organization. As a servant-leader, the role is responsible for ensuring that Scrum practices are effectively followed, facilitating the smooth operation of Scrum ceremonies, and promoting continuous improvement. This role involves removing impediments that hinder the team's progress, coaching the team towards self-organization, and creating a collaborative work environment.

In this role, the Scrum Master works closely with the Product Owner to align team efforts with business priorities, guiding the team to deliver high-quality products in short iterative cycles. The Scrum Master also serves as a facilitator and mediator, helping teams resolve conflicts, encouraging open communication, and supporting an efficient workflow. They are key to driving the team's success in delivering valuable products while adhering to Agile principles.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily stand-ups, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives and track sprint progress, including velocity, burndown charts, and other metrics to inform partners of the team's status.
• Help the Product Owner in managing the product backlog, ensuring priority clear, and aligning with the overall goals and coordinate with other Scrum Masters in the organization to share standard processes and resolve dependencies across teams.
• Identify and eliminate obstacles that could prevent the team from achieving their sprint goals.
• Coach teams in Agile practices and principles to help them achieve high performance and self-organization.
• Maintain access to the team's work, ensuring that all work items and challenges are transparent and understood by partners.

Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, And Experience

• Solid understanding of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and hands-on experience in their implementation.
• 5+ years of experience as a Scrum Master or in a similar Agile role.
• Ability to provide scrum and other agile training to teams.
• Ability to resolve conflicts and remove impediments in a team environment.
• Experience using Agile project management tools like Jira, Confluence, Whiteboard.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Ability to facilitate collaboration across geographically distributed teams.

This position will be subject to U.S. export control requirements under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Employment is contingent on either verifying the U.S. Person status or obtaining any necessary export license.

Why us?
Working at Siemens Software means flexibility - Choosing between working at home and the office at other times is the norm here. We offer great benefits and rewards, as you'd expect from a world leader in industrial software.

A collection of over 377,000 minds building the future, one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit, and business need. Bring your curiosity and creativity and help us shape tomorrow

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The salary range for this position is $87,600 to $157,700 and this role is eligible to earn incentive compensation. The actual compensation offered is based on the successful candidate's work location as well as additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education/training. Siemens offers a variety of health and wellness benefits to employees. Details regarding our benefits can be found here: [1] In addition, this position is eligible for time off in accordance with Company policies, including paid sick leave, paid parental leave, PTO (for non-exempt employees) or non-accrued flexible vacation (for exempt employees).